Why did some Christians, such as the remarkable Christian ascetic women called ammas, live simply in caves in the Egyptian desert?

a. They had migrated from southern Africa.
b. They were persecuted by the Romans.
c. They were saints.
d. They had little regard for things of this world.


d

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